“I still can’t find a wizard that can come up to write a program that will export my calendar from iCal so I can get into my Sidekick,” Rush Limbaugh told a caller on his radio show yesterday. “It will export it but like Thanksgiving shows up on November the 10th. Christmas shows up on March the 1st — and this is chump change! I’ve been asking somebody to write a program, because I use Apple’s iCal program, and I’ve got a Sidekick, which is the Mac version of the BlackBerry, and I keep my calendar and all the contact data on the computer. I want to I export it to my Sidekick so I can have it when I take it with me, and it just can’t be done — and a simple triple click? I’m about to the point of offering serious money for somebody could do it.”
“I’m now getting deluged with e-mail from people who have found for me a program iCal to Sidekick. I have that program, and it is a program that goes back to 2002. People are sending me the web address for VersionTracker. It’s a great website out there to get the latest version of software for the Mac OS or for anything else, and I have iCal to Sidekick. But the Mac OS has been, you know, revved and upgraded many times since iCal to Sidekick came out in December of 2002 — and the author, the lazy bum author of iCal the Sidekick, has not revved his program. It’s still a beta that came out in December 2002. Now, it did work for a while. It worked for a while, but all of a sudden the Mac OS gets updated and now dates… It’s really… I really don’t want to spend all this time talking because most people don’t know what I’m talking about here,” Limbaugh said.
“I’ll just tell you this: All-day events, whatever calendar I have — home, work, moon phase, whatever — if I list it as an all-day event like holidays or listed all day events rather than a specific start ask stop time all day events show up on totally inaccurate dates that make no sense. Christmas is on February 3rd, you know, and so I’ve been trying to get a new rev of this. There’s no new rev. There may be now that I’m publicly whining about it, but there hasn’t been up till now. So this rev hasn’t been done. I’ve been seeking programmers for a price to commission my own program. I’m just mentioned all this because this is a simple one, and look how difficult it is to make work,” Limbaugh said.
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The program is an orphan. The developer site is long gone.
I also would like a seamless, ical, phone/pda program that works with Mac/Nextel. Oh hell, I just want it all
I want a sprint phone with Bluetooth, that isn’t of the $300+ variety.
mark/space has software fr this developed. They are just waiting for the O.K. from Danger.
http://www.smartphonetoday.com/articles/2004/11/2004-11-2-Mac-Support-for.html
Limbaugh is discussing THIS on his radio show?!! wtf
I heard this call. The reason they were discussing it was the caller was a computer programer who callled in to discuss how hard it would be to “hack” into the voting machines and change the code and thus the votiong results; something alot of liberals have been discussing since the election. Limbaugh then went on to discuss the difficulty of writing code by citing his sidekick example….
Hooty
Limbaugh has been a serious advocate of the Mac platform for years, routinely championing it (without compensation) on his show. He used to relay stories of his repeated attempts to pitch Apple, but said it was “not interested.”
I have not listened to him in a couple of years on a regular basis, so I don’t know how much — if at all — he has been mentioning it.
I think that the Program is working fine… I believe that Rush is just too Doped up on Oxycoten!
Joel,
Aplle’s not interested in Rush pushing their products because Steve Jobs is a Kerry liberal.
And because Jobs is literally in bed with Al Gore as well…
I know. This long prior to Kerry, though. IIRC, the Apple line was something to the effect that it did not want a “political” spokesperson, which I certainly can understand. Again, IIRC, Limbaugh’s take was Apple did not want a “right” political spokesperson.
To his credit (at least at the time) he still opined heavily in favor of Apple/MacOS, despite Apple’s apparent cold shoulder.
I remember he was a passionate advocate for the platform at a time when the ship was sinking after Big Business had long settled on WinTel.
Like him/his politics or not, he was very outspoken on MacOS, even though Apple was in some of its darkest days. And he never wavered or backtracked on his commitment to the Mac.
Well I guess the ying yang symbol principle applies everywhere. In the black half of the symbol there is a small circle of white, which in this case represents the fact that Rush is an Apple advocate.
He should just take some pills to chill and relax…
You mean Steve Jobs and Al Gore actually sleep together? I don’t think you meant “literally in bed with.” I think you meant that Al Gore is literally on the Apple board. I’m so tired of people using the term “literally” incorrectly. I’m literally tired of it. I’m going to take a nap.
Ah it may be difficult to hack e-voting but the problem is it is NOT impossible.
Also and more worrisome is who say’s it has to be a hack to effect the voting. What ‘IF” the maker of these voting machines places a “VIRI” like app or firmware option that can be turned off or removed at a whim when it is tested by third parties. Then it is NOT a hack..but a fix.
This is NOT impossbile either…and I’ve yet to hear any reasonable explination why this will or would not happen.
“Every single day I wake expecting and asking NOTHING from life, and each day I am pleasantly surprised by what I get”
Pagan jim
If one uses “literally” incorrectly, is one then literarily challenged? Or literately challenged? Illiterate? Or just a litterer?
Back to Limbaugh…
I need a wizard that takes a big fat, drug filled idiot that spews hate for 3 hours a day and exports him to a
righteous moral bigot. Oh wait I guess I don’t need that wizard. Thanks.
One other question.
Why is it logical to trust so called experts on ANYTHING?
Take this RFID technology that is being planted not only in inventory items but is some cases PEOPLE.
We are told NOT to worry about the implications because RFID tech is very limited and such, and it will only be able to do X. So why should I or you take this so called information as well pardon the expression GOSPEL!?!
So electronic computerized voting is SAFE…and honest. Yeah that’s the ticket.
RFID can NOT be used to inventory and track people, or if it can..it will be only used for society’s benefit and safety. OK..that’s nice.
Am I the ONLY one who see’s problems with this!?!
“Every single day I wake asking and expecting NOTHING from life, and every day I am pleasantly surprised by what I get”
Pagan jim
Even though Al Gore didn’t invent the internet, there are still people who respect him. Even though Rush is Rush, there are still people who respect him. Being Apple advocates may indeed be the only thing that these two guys can wholeheartedly agree upon, and I like to think that is a good reflection on Apple, no matter what political views one might espouse.
I find it fascinating you always see this kind of stuff from liberals:
“…I need a wizard that takes a big fat, drug filled idiot that spews hate for 3 hours a day and exports him to a righteous moral bigot. Oh wait I guess I don’t need that wizard. Thanks….”
The most mean spirited, vile, hateful language comes from the left, yet ironically they are always tell everyone that the right is the side of hate.
Here’s another example: “http://fuckthesouth.com/”
As a black person, I find constant racist rhetoric to also be a mainstay of the so called open-minded left.
I believe once the left figures out that it has become a circus mirror reflection of its former self, and remembers what it was trying to achieve, it will come back strong. Until then, all the irrational ranting, and conspiracy theories, and hate speak, and race bating make the left look like a big UFO cult, something to be aware of but not to be taken too seriously,
Steve Jobs is not a Kerry liberal. Steve Jobs is an Abbie Hoffman liberationist.
Scary thing is thelonius, sometimes they win.
Well said theloniusMac.
oxycontin_man has probably never listened to Rush, and would never complain about Michael Moore.
Thelonius, you’re flat out wrong. The hate filled, mean spirited language is EQUAL from both sides. You’re probably blinded by your stance, just like the lefties who can also be blinded. I recommend you go to one of the previous threads that aren’t about one person in particular, but more about politics in general, and count the hate filled remarks. The results will probably surprise you.
A good example would be if this thread featured Micheal Moore. How many hate filled remarks would we have to put with then?